Fan Hua has been very busy these days. She has to finish the drawings for the picture book, rehearse, think about how to decorate the photo studio, and prepare a first birthday gift for Yuanxiao and his sister.
Fan Youcheng came every day to help build walls and dig ditches. Since moving to the textile factory dormitory building, he came earlier and left later every day, and ate all three meals a day in the staff quarters.
Zhao Yilu would also help Fan Youcheng after leaving the camp. After a few days of hard work, they finally completed the construction of the toilet and washroom on the 13th day of the first lunar month.
That afternoon, when Zhao Xiaoyan and Zhang Jihong came over for their final rehearsal, Zhao Xiaoyan couldn't help but complain again: "Sister Fan, you're so particular. Apart from the chief's family, yours is the only one in our family compound that has built its own toilet. You said we're all neighbors, so why not just go to your house when I need to use the toilet from now on? It's much closer than going to the toilet!"
During the rehearsals these days, Fan Hua and Zhao Xiaoyan had a lot of quarrels. In fact, it was Zhao Xiaoyan who always wanted to find fault with her. At the beginning, Fan Hua was more relaxed and always spoke with a smile and a polite tone. Later, after it happened more and more times, Fan Hua no longer showed any mercy and started to argue with her!
So Fan Huaqi continued, "Tian, you can come if you can help with the excrement removal regularly!"
Zhao Xiaoyan's face immediately darkened. "Why are you so stingy? You just went to the toilet and asked me to help you clean it!"
"Sister Zhao, what do you do with the extra feces you bring to my house? Doesn't someone have to scoop it out? If you think I'm stingy, how about you build one yourself and I go to your house to use the toilet every day?"
"How can that be possible!" Zhao Xiaoyan blurted out.
Fan Hua spread her hands and said, "Sister Zhao, don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you!"
Seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel again, Zhang Weihong hurriedly persuaded them, "Alright, we're going to perform on stage tomorrow, so stop arguing. Let's practice it a couple of times. Don't embarrass the wives of the soldiers in the first battalion!"
Upon hearing this, Fan Hua and Zhao Xiaoyan immediately changed their expressions and acted like a loving couple.
They have reached a consensus in the past two days, that is, no matter how much they quarrel in private, they still have to put aside their personal grudges and perform honestly during rehearsals. After all, there are people waiting to laugh at them!
The three of them rehearsed again, and only after they felt there were no problems did Zhao Xiaoyan and Zhang Jihong leave.
That night, Fan Hua took a comfortable bath in the newly built bathroom. She also found a large basin with hot water and asked Zhao Yilu to help her wash the two children as well.
With Zhao Yilu's help, bathing the kids this time went particularly smoothly. He was very strong and dragged the kids with one hand while pouring water on them with the other. He hardly needed Fan Hua's help and he quickly gave the two kids a bath.
Tomorrow, Yuanxiao brother and sister will be one year old. Because the army will hold a Lantern Festival party in the afternoon, Fan Hua plans to hold a one-year-old birthday ceremony for the two children in the morning and also treat a few friends in Guangzhou to a banquet.
After washing the children and coaxing them to sleep, Fan Hua and Zhao Yilu used the light of incandescent lamps to decorate the one-year-old background wall for the two children in the living room.
Fan Hua first asked Zhao Yilu to hang a burgundy velvet cloth on the wall, and then hung festive lion dance patterns and fan patterns drawn on sketch cardboard on the velvet cloth, and hung in the middle the words "Happy 1st Birthday of Yuanyuan Xiaoxiao" in large characters. Below the names was a colorful cartoon portrait of two children leaning against each other, which looked very heartwarming!
Under the velvet cloth was laid a festive red silk cloth, and on top were placed various items for drawing lots, waiting for the two children to come and draw lots tomorrow.
After the two of them decorated it like this, the wall instantly became festive.
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